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Old 04-28-2012, 12:21 PM   #243
AshleyO
 
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Well then, Angelic; if that's how you want to play this "God of the gaps", then god is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

I've got a proposition for you, man. Give us an example or a hypothetical where religion will indeed offer a better answer than the scientific method. And saying that religion is a good band-aid for the shit we don't know isn't good enough.

We understand that there are people that aren't going to understand proofs.

All of those things in which you listed as the zeitgeist of those times have been corrected by the furthering of science. There are people out there who still insist the Earth is flat and who deny the Holocaust. But they're stupid. There's no need to muddy the waters of knowledge with bullshit like that. It would be shockingly surprising if at the very end of our faculties of reason, it is religion that would offer the final answer.
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